Here's my Nightweb link for anyone interested in experimenting with me: http://nightweb.net/#type=user&userhash=5avfzwgkdzgddsv3...
gw: It would be great to have multiple personas available to me, like an inverse of google+ circles.
Yeah I've thought about allowing multiple users on a single device, so I'll look into that in the near future.
EDIT: I fixed the issue with clicking links in browsers. I will issue version 0.0.5 with this fix because I think it's pretty important.
The third party would be running their own Nightweb client, then visitors to the website would trigger content downloads on the client, rendered out as a webpage.
This would provide the "public view" without sacrificing the decentralized nature.
In fact, this type of functionality is hopefuly becoming an Internet Standard: http://www.internetsociety.org/articles/moving-toward-censor...
However, Bittorrent is not up to the task, due to NAT issues. UDP NAT puncturing is not present in this stack, right? Thus how is it going through carrier-grade NATs which block all these smartphones?
Disclaimer: working on a similar thing for years Tribler Mobile.
I think it would provide a window into the social network, kind of "Oscar is using this, join him now by downloading the app!"
The implication I see is privacy of people clicking a user link, but the problem already exists now.
That's mine ... awww feels like the beginnings of ICQ ;)
But ... we can hack on it ... finally a good reason to learn Clojure.
So here's mine http://nightweb.net/#type=user&userhash=dtvjjjuk7eai42xx...
Although tying these identities to our hacker news IDs basically means throwing anonymity out the window.
On the other hand, I didn't actually learn Java. Knowing C++ and reading documentation seems to be sufficient for using Java libraries with Clojure.